"If You're A Boy Or A Girl"
by Jane Wiedlin and Pietro Straccia
RABBIT STEW
I fell into a hole
Rabbit stew didn't know what to do
Asleep Awake
Dreams crowded
With conversation and dates of expiration
Floored the ground below my feet
Melts feelings
Black and blue again
Cracked ceiling
Beyond the glass door
Guess I'll stick around a little more
Outside the window the water's cold
And my heart is growing mold
ASLEEP AWAKE
SURROUNDED BY BLUE
DREAMS AWAKEN
DECADES OF YOU
Diamond dogs die
I drink and I cry
The neighbors fight
And it's like this every night
And outside the window the water's cold
And my heart keeps growing mold
Beyond the glass door
Guess I'll stick around a little more
Guess I'll stick around
ASLEEP AWAKE
SURROUNDED BY BLUE
DREAMS AWAKEN
DECADES OF YOU
Oh I fell into a hole
Oh I Oh I
Oh I fell into a hole
Oh I oh I
ALOHA
Is it something I said?
Every day I swallow my feet
Now that I'm here
Don't know how to be me
The haters around
Are on the attack
If I let em hug me
They'll bury knives in my back
And I do understand
They'd rather I not speak
I'm supposed to be silent
I'm supposed to be meek
But I have spent a lifetime
Learning not to be Learning not to be
I don't want to die alone
Three thousand miles from nowhere
A million miles from home
ALOHA: HELLO
ALOHA: GOODBYE
ALOHA: I LOVE YOU
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
Fire ants and Iceheads
Coming to take me down
You'll get eaten alive here
My big mouth is not allowed
Let the gentle breezes
And tropical scent
Comfort you
And cover up the stench
Of everything everything
That's rotten here
And all of the ones
So twisted and bent
Cuz I have spent a lifetime
Trying not to be Trying not to be
I don't want to die alone
Three thousand miles from nowhere
A million miles from home
ALOHA: HELLO ALOHA: GOODBYE
ALOHA: I LOVE YOU
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
ALOHA: I LOVE YOU
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
GOODBYE
MAIL ORDER BRIDE
Do it do it
I do I do
My constant companion
Always beside me my little bunnybun
My hand you so tightly hold
Cuz yours is always so cold
You're so tiny but you talk so loud
How can it be that no one else hears you
Always demanding:
Do it do it
I do I do
Never leaving my side
My lovely bride
You've delivered your invite to Heaven
Each day since I was eleven
Why do you lie to us
With your fairytales of Jesus
Promising good times ahead
When we are the dead
Never leaving my side
My Mail Order Bride
My sweet bride
Do it do it
I do I do
Why dont you show your face I try and try
To dig you out of your base but you're too deep inside Yeah you play seek and hide
And though I cut with great haste
I could never get to that place
You've delivered your invite to Heaven
Each day since I was eleven
Why dont you lift your veil
So coy with your skin so pale
Promising good times ahead
When we are the dead
Never leaving my side
My Mail Order Bride
Always by my side
My sweet bride
My sweet bride
LOVE ME AT A DISTANCE
(Written by Pat McDonald)
Love me at a distance
Love me from afar
I'll love you forever
Wherever you are
Love me at a distance
Though I can't be there
It's nice having someone
In the world somewhere
I'm wishing you everything
Money, luck and fun
A girlfriend, a boyfriend
I'll be either one
Potential disappointment
Is a bird in the hand
Who'll say what you want to hear
Sings on demand
I'd rather be your long lost secret love
This mystery fits me like a glove
Love the idea of me
Love the idea of me
I offer no resistance
No strain upon your strength
Love me at a distance
And I'll love you at length
Love me like an ex
So cold and so far gone
Call me from Mexico
And play me like a song
Call me your long lost secret love
This mystery fits me like a glove
Love the idea of me
Love the idea of me
Love the idea of me
And fuck the reality
Love me at a distance
Love me from afar
And I'll love you forever
Wherever you are
Love me at a distance
Though I can't be there
It's nice having someone
In the world, in the world, in the world
Somewhere
BRITTLE
Standing on the edge of a cliff
It's unstable it's unstable
Trying to find a purpose to purchase
I'm unable unable
AND IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
When I was a girl I could breathe
Above water, underwater
When I was a girl I could fly
Like every daughter, every daughter
AND IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
THERE WERE BUMPS
AND I FELT THEM ALL
NOT JUST A LITTLE
WITH EVERY JUMP
WHAT WAS TOUGH
BECAME BRITTLE
Everywhere is poisoned beauty
All the world is set on fire
And I would be with other people
Who desire my desires
Now I'd rather be alone
But I'm unable I'm a liar
AND IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
STOP, DROP & SWALLOW
Here's something for the pain
Time to climb aboard again
Hide what is yours and follow
It's okay, stop drop and swallow
You don't really need to be a man
I don't feel the need to show my hand
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A BRIGHT YOUNG THING
I DON'T REMEMBER I DON'T REMEMBER
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BELIEVE IN ANYTHING
I DON'T REMEMBER I WONT REMEMBER
For a day of solitude
Would you promise a change in attitude
For just one dreamless night
Would you tear your clothes
And everything in sight
HIDE WHAT IS YOURS AND FOLLOW
IT'S OKAY, STOP DROP AND SWALLOW
You don't really need to be a man
I don't feel the need to show my hand
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A BRIGHT YOUNG THING
I DON'T REMEMBER I DON'T REMEMBER
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BELIEVE IN ANYTHING
I DON'T REMEMBER I CANT REMEMBER
HIDE WHAT IS YOURS AND FOLLOW
IT'S OKAY, STOP DROP AND SWALLOW
BLISS
That flea of a cat
Tearing up the mess in my house again
This house
Twenty feet away from some dangerous friends
My friends
Keep changing like a nonstop turnstyle
Not sold
On the width, depth or breadth of that smile
I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
That cat
Is a harbinger of doom
My friends
Are camping out in every room
This house
Take out the trash, no I gotta crash
Not sold
This was supposed to be a deal
Sans cash
I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS
(They said it would be magnificent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be transcendent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be magnificent)
But who
Who made their bed?
Yeah, you
You made your bed
And now comes the time
To lie lie lie in it
And that's what you get for your folly
Work on your poker face, dolly
I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS
(They said it would be magnificent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be transcendent)
NO I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS
(They said it would be magnificent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be transcendent)
NIGHTBLIND
I can't see in the dark
Steering the car in the blind
Hoping the road stays straight
Because narrow is the pathway
Moving gaily forward
You better go man
Get your feet off the ground
Stick your head in the clouds
Pour your mind in the gutter
Clear your thoughts
Clear your thoughts
Nobody knows you’re night blind
Till you hit a kid
Till you drive off a cliff
Nobody knows you’re night blind
Till it’s too late maybe
I'll pray to a god that don't exist
Pray to a god that don't exist
You better go man
Get your feet off the ground
Stick your head in the clouds
Pour your mind in the gutter
Clear your thoughts of clutter
You better go man
Get your feet off the ground
Stick ,your head in the clouds
Pour your mind in the gutter
Free your thoughts
Free your thoughts
Clear your thoughts
Clear your thoughts
Clear your thoughts
Nobody knows
Till it's too late it's too late
You gotta go man go
Cuz it's too late too late
Nobody knows
Till it's too late it's too late
You gotta go man go
Cuz it's too late it's too late
LOST AT SEA
I ran away on a boat
Across a big ole moat
Didn't you know?
I kicked you out and swore you off
You bug me like a scratchy cough
Didn't you know?
ANOTHER SKY-FILLED MORNING
YOU COULD SHARE WITH ME
I'M NOT ALONE BUT LONELY
I'M LOST AT SEA
The scope was pointed straight ahead
A new wave hit me instead
It was so dumb
I'm down here lost at sea
You stayed up there in The Peaks
You didn't come
I'M OUT OF SONGS
AND LONGING
FOR BEAUTY
GETTING NOWHERE SLOWLY
I'M LOST AT SEA
ANOTHER SKY-FILLED MORNING
YOU COULD SHARE WITH ME
I'M NOT ALONE BUT LONELY
I'M LOST AT SEA
And this mistake
What has it taught?
A bird in love
The hand is blind
Time marches on
This ain't much fun
Aphorisms roll off my tongue
Enough cliches to pen a play
Cold comfort to the mind
There is no time
When it is fun
This dilemma makes me feel numb
It all comes from a place of love
It should come from a place of love
Well, it MOSTLY comes from a place of love
THE NEXT NIGHT
When everything is hurting
And every single minute ticks like hours
When you can't seem to settle
Even though you've run out of all power
Worn, your will is gone
But you still go on
Just remember
IT MAKES THE NEXT NIGHT EASIER
TILL THE NEXT NIGHT
You’re so tired you're decomposing
Your janky limbs would kill to be reposing (decomposing) The monkey mind is spinning
It feels like you'll never be not in it (decomposing)
Soon the light will hit where you lay
You'll drag your sorry ass out of bed
Somehow you'll get through the day
Like the dead
Worn, your will is gone
But you still go on
Just remember
IT MAKES THE NEXT NIGHT
EASIER
TILL THE NEXT NIGHT
GETS EASIER
THE NEXT NIGHT
TILL THE NEXT NIGHT
THE NEXT NIGHT
LOW
(Written by: David Charles Lowery, Johnny Hickman, David Allen Faragher)
Sometimes I wanna take you down
Sometime I wanna get you low
Brush your hair back from your eyes
Take you down let the river flow
Sometimes I go and walk the street
Behind a green sheet of glass
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
A million poppies gonna make me sleep
Just one rose it knows your name
The fruit is rusting on the vine
A fruit is calling from the trees
Hey don't you wanna go down
Like some junky cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
Hey don't you wanna go down
Like some disgraced cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
THE MOON RIVER
I never knew the moon river I confess
I thought it was THE beautiful dream
OF a lovely girl in A little black dress
I never knew it would reach across the sea
And touch me
I’ve never seen anything so fine
No stranger, no friend
No beginning, no end
Just an everlasting sparkle and shine
Like a silver rainbow
And those nights
Haunted by restlessness
Sleepless loneliness
To look out my window
And see the moon river
Telling me To swim
Calling me to walk on water
Bare feet covered in moon dust
Telling me to swim
Calling me to walk on water
Bare feet covered in moon dust
It touched me
I’ve never seen anything so fine
No stranger, no friend
No beginning, no end
Just an everlasting sparkle and shine
Like a silver rainbow
And those nights
Haunted by restlessness
Sleepless loneliness
To look out my window
And see the moon river
Telling me to swim
Calling me to walk on water
Bare feet covered in moon dust
To look out my window
And see the moon river
Telling me to swim
Calling me to walk on water
Bare feet covered in moon dust
AHHHHHHH in moon dust
I thought it was a beautiful dream (I confess)
I thought it was the beautiful dream
IN CASE OF MISADVENTURE
I broke my back
Trying to get to the water
Dust and sun
Could it be any hotter?
We hitched a sketchy ride
In an old pickup truck
It blew a gasket and died
I didn’t give a fuck
Tourists were watching
When we jumped off the cliff
In case of misadventure
It’s a question of when, not if
It’s a question of when, not if
It’s not the heat
It’s the humility
Kissed by the sea
I melt instantly
Time to dare the scofflaws
Time to test our luck
Tore my shirt on barb wire
I couldn’t give a fuck
Tourists were watching
When we jumped off the cliff
In case of misadventure
It’s a question of when, not if
It’s a question of when, not if
I broke my back
Trying to get to the water
I broke my back
Trying to get to the water
JUST LIKE MY DOG
(Written by Pietro Straccia and Travis Kasperbauer)
My son in the sun
My son is the sun
Lazy eye open just enough
He sheds what he don’t need
Charm the girls they all smile as they walk by
Yeah he gets that from me
When they approach
He let’s them get close
Then he runs off, he runs off
To storm the beaches dig the washed up sea creatures
That’s my son in the sun
My son in the sun
My son is the sun
I am just like my dog
I got feet and he’s got paws
I am just like my dog.
I am just like just like.
Skinny legs, shaggy hair
Got a heart patch on his sleeve
Sniffing tail, diving in the mud, is so much cooler than clean
He sleeps on for most the day and he don’t stop
A whiff of food and now he’s wide awake
That’s my son in the sun
My son in the sun
My son is the sun
I am just like my dog
Little shark mouth
He looks like Jaws
I am just like my dog
Don’t touch his claws
There’s a noise coming from there
You go first though I’m not scared
It’s just a bag blowing in the air
Now I can lick you every where
I am just like my dog
He’s so nuts but I got balls
Maybe the other way around
I am just like my dog
Don’t touch his claws
I am just like my dog
I am just like my dog
I am just like my dog
Dog bless these paws
My son in the sun
My son in the sun
My son is the sun
Crazy angel falling from the sun
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER NIGHT
You’ll see
One foot in front of the other
“And then another”
One breath
Then the next
Then the next
Then the next
Breathe in
Breathe out
Suns up get up
Just get out of bed
Breathe out
Keep up
Its not over yet
Another day Another night
Will soon be over
One year “one year”
Goes by in less than hour
Tick tock “tic tic tok”
Says the clock
Never stops
Never stops
Breathe in
Breathe out
Suns up get up
Just get out of bed
Breathe out `
Keep up
Its not over yet
The best days you don’t say a word
The worst nights it all goes unheard
The days seem like years
Long nights become a blur
Another day another night
THE TOWN OF MAYBE NEVER
Put her on the clean machine
Wash her blood once or twice
Wash her blood maybe thrice
It’s a temporary treatment
But they say it’s nice
Looking through old videographs
Staring at a tiny screen
Wonders what did it even mean
She’s forgotten almost everything
That she has ever seen
Becoming takes forever
But forever is nothing
In the town of maybe never
She’s a sparrow without wings
The paint device does it’s best
Approximating pretty
She remembers being oh so witty
But there’s no escaping the years
In this old city
Becoming takes forever
Forever is nothing
In the town of maybe never
She’s a sparrow without wings
Becoming takes forever
But forever is nothing
In the town of maybe never
She’s a sparrow without wings
She’s a sparrow without wings
"ED"
by Jane Wiedlin and Pietro Straccia
